Good Morning Everyone Leeds have lost their top spot in the Championship. We all know its going to be a long hard season but would you expect the Whites to knock West Brom off top spot or are the Baggies better equipped to retain top spot? Klich came to Leeds rescue once more as the Whites came from behind to share the spoils at Hillsborough. Its fair to say that Leeds dominated the game, but were undone by an extraordinary goal from Adam Reach. Great goal or fluke? We have not won since the Preston game. Which of the team, if any would you change for the Hull match on Tuesday night? Leeds legend Noel Whelan has been speaking to Yorkshire Radio about how much the Whites are missing their play maker... "Hernandez is Premier League quality. He can change games," he told BBC Radio Leeds. "The only frustration for him at times is that a lot of people are a step behind him. They are not on the same wave-length because he thinks so quickly and he wants the players to be up with him the way he thinks. That's why he's played in the Premier League." Seven games without a goal, 15, if you count all the European games. Of course I'm talking about Chris Wood's form this season! Did we sell Wood at the right time? If we had the opportunity to re sign him for 15m, would you?
Morning all.. Chris Wood this season wouldn’t fit into how we play, last season I’d have had him back but not this one. Unless Roofe is fit I can’t see any changes, on Sky against Sheffield the commentary team said Roofe might feature against Hull but Berardi and Hernandez are not looking likely to return until at least after the International break.
Morning all. After barely a dozen games and three months in charge we are seeing why some of the best judges have spoken so highly of Marcelo Bielsa. He has not only got the team playing great football he has improved every player, none more so than Mateusz Klich who it seems to me is emerging as one of the best attacking midfielders we have ever had at this club. Thanks also to Radz and the much maligned Orto for providing the ammunition.Long may it last.I doubt if Wood would get in the team.
Good morning Matt & everyone The Baggies are hard to judge as I haven't seen them play yet, only watched some highlights, they are certainly the in form team atm winning their last four matches & unbeaten in six games. Also scoring goals for fun although 7 of their 25 goals came in their 7-1 defeat over QPR, their defence is a bit leaky even they spent £13m signing keeper Sam Johnstone & CB Kyle Bartley. WBA look strong in midfield & with the likes of Barry, Livermore, Gibbs plus the three forwards Rodriguez, Phillips & Gayle who have scored 17 goals between them
Morning all. We need to start improving our conversion to chances rate quickly or were in danger of losing more ground. Hopefully the return of Pablo and Roofe will solve the problem
morning all unexpected day off due to a late finish yesterday so not able to meet my start time today.chris wood would have popped up for a goal on friday i'm sure if used as a sub.don't know why he is not scoring or maybe Burnley have changed their style . can't see how we could change our team for dull city as we are down to bare bones as it is.Baker is a no no for me but perhaps when roofe is fit roberts could play on the right in a front three.he looks to have good pace and iv'e not seen much in Harrison so far that excites me.Marmite should continue on the left but maybe it's time to give dallas a longer stint in the second half.edmonson and clark continue to push but only clark made the bench last time out.
west brom have a better squad than us and i picked them early season to finish top two.there in lays the problem strength in depth.no matter who our coach is he can't dip in to our small and lacking in quality squad.
Morning all..I think it's a measure of how far we've come under Bielsa and that our expectations have gone up so much, that we're disappointed with anything other than a win. I just hope we don't lose too much ground at the top before we get Pablo & Roofe back.
Best we can hope is Roofe comes on as sub, team unchanged I think. Wish we had Pablo and Roofe back fully fit, but that’s life Win this and we are 22 points from 11 games, 2.0 points a game will - probably - be enough for auto this season, as there’s a number of teams who are fairly good and as yet no stand outs
WBA do have a better squad on paper,lucky for us games aren't played on paper.Seen WBA a couple of times on tv and certainly don't think they are better than us
Their manager said they were a work in progress and will get better. Mind you they often say stuff like that so who knows
Well you could say the same about us,Bielsa said Friday was our best performance,so we are getting better.
West Brom have a lot of experienced players in the team and will be top 2 the rest of the season for me, the other slot will be between us and Boro but pnly if we start winning games against the likes of Hull tomorrow, we now need to get back to winning ways, Roofe coming back will help, if he is in the same form as prior to the injury. Expect the same 11 tomorrow as on Friday, especially with MB saying it was pur bedt performance, time for Robrrts to put a couple away tomorrow night.. Still undecided if it was a great goal or a fluke, doubt he'll score another like it though. Hernandez has been a great miss, that little bit of magic he creates is the difference between 1 point and 3. Wood not starting for Burnley doesn't surlrise me, very good Championship player but didn't think he was quite good enough for the step up. Off to Stoke in January perhaps.
To me it was a hit and hope shot. It was a great goal but a large element of fluke in my view. If he did that 99 more times I reckon they would all end up in row Z. Sympathy for BPF in my view as not much he could do to save it. I feel that WBA will be main contender for top slot and they might be better prepared than us. It is far from ideal to have the players out injured that we do as I don't think we have the depth to cover them.
